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Odysseus In Contemplation of His Homecoming To Ithaca and Reunion With Queen Penelope
Odysseus In Contemplation of His Homecoming To Ithaca and Reunion With Queen Penelope
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After the siege of Troy and a decade-long voyage, a king is ready to come home to his kingdom and to his queen...
Far away from these antique moors,
I hear your voice call for my soul
and carry me to Ithaca's doors!
Can echoes from you divinely toll,
commanding me onto bright shores
like sacred gods that read from a scroll?
I sail the seas and wander afar,
from you and from all that we've known;
and with only the bright North Star
to safely guide me through wind-blown
waves, I now cruise with the polestar
to at last return all alone.
Heaven and earth, and all marine,
no longer can more divide us;
and even the gods' wrathful spleen
cannot impede my victorious
journey to you, Penelope my queen,
whose heart is legend and glorious!
Copyright © Ngoc Nguyen | Year Posted 2020
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